10-letter words containing o, r, v, a, l
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- real video — (video, compression) A lossy video compression format from Real Media.
- reapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
- revalorize — to change the valuation of (assets)
- revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revelatory — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- royal navy — the navy of the United Kingdom
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- savonarola — Girolamo [ji-rol-uh-moh;; Italian jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒɪˈrɒl əˌmoʊ;; Italian dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1452–98, Italian monk, reformer, and martyr.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- travelator — a moving pavement for transporting pedestrians, as in a shopping precinct or an airport
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- vapor load — A vapor load is the amount of a vapor which goes into or comes out of a stage in a distillation process.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- varicocele — a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum.
- varifocals — a pair of spectacles with varifocal lenses
- variolator — (before the introduction of vaccinations) someone who caused exposure to the smallpox virus to people (by, for example, collecting pus of affected patients) so as to promote immunity
- variolitic — Petrography. containing or resembling varioles, especially in texture.
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
- verilog sa — (company) A French real-time software engineering company.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- viral load — the amount or concentration of a virus, as HIV, in the blood.
- visitorial — of or relating to a visitor; visitatorial.
- vitriolate — relating to vitriol
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
- volitorial — relating to flying
- voltairian — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- voltameter — a device for measuring the quantity of electricity passing through a conductor by the amount of electrolytic decomposition it produces, or for measuring the strength of a current by the amount of such decomposition in a given time.
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voluptuary — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- vorarlberg — a province in W Austria. 1004 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km). Capital: Bregenz.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.